Is Facebook the new village square?

I’ve been writing a lot lately on Facebook, sharing the results of a recent study conducted by ConsumerLab looking at the behavior of Swedish teenagers. In the next installment of my Facebook posts, I explain how the platform is just as important to social life today as the village square was in the past.

Read this post at: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2011/10/27/is-facebook-the-new-village-square/